Pi and DeepSeek V4 Flash: The Daily Coding Loop That Costs Almost Nothing
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Vibe Coding With Rigor (Or: How to Use AI Without Your Codebase Turning Into a Dumpster Fire)
The term I am reclaiming (because "vibe coding" got a bad rap)
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CI/CD Around GitHub Pages (Or: How I Got Deploy Previews Without Paying Netlify)
The gap GitHub Pages leaves open (it's not that bad)
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Quality Gate: Linting, Formatting, and Verify (Or: How I Stopped Shipping Broken HTML)
Why the gate exists (because you will ship shit if you don't)
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SEO Metadata Without Rituals (Or: I Read 47 SEO Blog Posts So You Don't Have To)
The short version (TL;DR for the impatient)
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OG Images at Build Time (Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Sharp)
The problem and the usual solutions (none of which I wanted)
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Feeds and Sitemaps at Build Time (RSS Is Dead, Long Live RSS. Also JSON Feed.)
The distribution minimum (three files, that's it)
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Build Assets Pipeline (Or: How I Turned a Simple Blog Into an Image Processing Factory)
The goal (four non-negotiable constraints)
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Design Tokens Before Pages (Yes, I Wrote the CSS Before the First Line of HTML)
The mistake I kept making (repeat after me: tokens first)
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Progressive Enhancement as Contract (Yes, It Works Without JS. No, I'm Not Kidding.)
The contract (read this part)
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Archives, Tags, Months, and Series (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pagination)
Three ways to slice the same posts (because one axis is never enough)
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Template Engine and Template Structure (Or: Why I Didn't Use Handlebars Like a Normal Person)
Three constraints that shaped the grammar (because constraints are good, actually)
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Custom SSG Pipeline: From Markdown to Static HTML (Without Losing Your Mind)
The pipeline, in one picture (because I know you're skimming)
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Why I Skipped Astro, Eleventy and Next.js (And Built My Own SSG Like a Goddamn Caveman)
The default answer and why I ignored it
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Rebuilding dout.dev With an AI Copilot: Less Boilerplate, Same Amount of Existential Dread
The honest framing
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CMS and Markdown Processing (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Flat File)
The useful distinction
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How I Built dout.dev (and why I did not use a framework like a normal person)
What the stack is, exactly (TL;DR: files + Node + blood)